Families are important, influential and significant – but not perfect!

Healthy families are not accidents!

COMMUNICATION: Lines of communication must be planted, developed and prioritized!

Types of Communication
-Verbal
-Non-verbal
-Written
-Visual

Deuteronomy 6:4-9

National Study of Youth and Religion
1. Parent who authentically lives out his/her faith in Christ.
2. Significant adult who does the same.
3. Makes a significant spiritual decision before age 17

HOMEWORK: Ritin’ - Sharing
-Communicate within the family
-Communicate with God
-Communicate with the world at large

Deuteronomy 6:4-9

4 “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. 8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. (ESV)